WASHINGTON Adidas Miehet NMD CS1 Primeknit musta Sneaker Kengät , Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Maria started pummeling Puerto Rico as the near Category-5 hurricane made landfall southeast of the island Wednesday morning.
The storm hit the city Yabucoa with winds of 250 km per hour, about 2 km per hour short of a Category-5 strength as per the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale, according to the U.S. Hurricane Center.
Maria's eye was located about 40 km west of San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, carrying winds of 220 km per hour as it was moving northwest at a speed of 19 km per hour, the agency said in its latest advisory on Wednesday.
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On the forecast track, the center of the hurricane will continue to move across Puerto Rico and emerge off the northern coast later Wednesday before passing just north of the northeast coast of the Dominican Republic during the night and Thursday.
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Packed with catastrophic winds and dangerous storm surges, Maria churned through France's Guadeloupe, leaving one person dead, and wreaked havoc on Dominica.
It also came on the heels of Hurricane Irma, one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic.
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BEIJING, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- China's health authority saidThursday that about 51 percent of China's newborn babies in 2017were second children in the family, a 5 percentage points increasefrom 2016.
China's National Bureau of Statistics estimated that there were17.23 million babies born in 2017. Numbers collected from hospitalsshowed there are 17.58 million newborns, according to a statementon the website of the National Health and Family PlanningCommission (NHFPC).
Figures provided by the NHFPC earlier showed that 18.5 millionbabies were born in hospital in 2016, the highest since 2000.
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RABAT, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology will be introduced for the first time in Africa during the African Nations Championship (CHAN), which is being staged in Morocco between 13 January and 4 February, the Confederation of African Football announced on Wednesday.
A mock-up of the VAR technology will be conducted on Wednesday in Casablanca during day two of the Group A matches, the CAF said in a statement.
The tournament adidas prophere suomi , which is for African footballers based in their own domestic leagues, features 16 teams in four groups.
It will be tested during the games between Morocco and Guinea as well as between Sudan and Mauritania.
The mock-up is a requirement of the International Football Association Board.
The CAF intends to experiment with VAR from the knockout stages of the tournament, it added.
A two-man delegation from FIFA, in charge of VAR project for the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018, has since arrived in Casablanca to provide assistance, support and supervision for the offline sessions adidas iniki runner suomi , it also pointed out.
Eddy Maillet, CAF Refereeing Manager said the FIFA duo will work together with their African counterparts for the sessions.
"The FIFA experts will test the devices to be used for the exercise in a real match situation. It will also involve two referees and one assistant referee in a cabin communicating to the match officials on the pitch for matches in Casablanca," he said.
QUITO, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- The former French football world champion Lilian Thuram is in Ecuador to give a series of lectures against racism and promotes his foundation "Education Against Racism".
"It's important to overcome racism. From my experience I want to talk to children so they will not have the biases when they grow up," Thuram said at a press conference here on Tuesday.
The retired defender, who was the most capped player in the history of the France national team adidas nmd racer suomi , will stay in Ecuador until Friday to give lecture in schools and Afro-Ecuadorian communities.
According to his planned agenda, Thuram will visit an Olympic High Performance Centre in the northern coastal province of Esmeraldas on Friday.
The former world champion expressed his pleasure to share his experience and present his book "My Black Stars" in the South American country.
"Racism is part of the construction of the story, but will change the collective imaginary part of the solution," he said, noting that "out of this you need to change things from within each person."
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